Re: rndc key for bind 9.3.0. catch-22? - DNS

This is a discussion on Re: rndc key for bind 9.3.0. catch-22? - DNS ; On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 12:47, Christopher L. Barnard wrote:
> I am confused. This is bind 9.3.0.
>
> from the rndc man page:
>
> [...] In the current versions of rndc and named named the
> only supported ...

Re: rndc key for bind 9.3.0. catch-22?

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 12:47, Christopher L. Barnard wrote:
> I am confused. This is bind 9.3.0.
>
> from the rndc man page:
>
> [...] In the current versions of rndc and named named the
> only supported authentication algorithm is HMAC-MD5 [...]
>
> however, when I try to generate a key
>
> root#> /opt/local/sbin/dnssec-keygen -a hmac-md5 -b 512 -n ZONE cbot.com
> dnssec-keygen: a key with algorithm 'hmac-md5' cannot be a zone key
>
> That dnssec-keygen command worked fine with bind9 prior to version 9.3.0.
> An existing key works fine on a server that has been upgraded to bind
> 9.3.0 from 9.2.3. However a new installation of bind 9.3.0 fails because
> I cannot generate the key for rndc. How do I generate a key for the
> /etc/rndc.conf file with bind version 9.3.0?
>
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> +----------PGP public key available via finger or PGP keyserver---------+
>
>
You could substitute 'HOST' for 'ZONE' in the dnssec-keygen command, and
then copy the generated key (the last field of the KEY record) from
either the K*.public or K*.private files (removing spaces) into the
'rndc.key' file.

Alternatively, you could use the attached C-program
which generates a usable hmac-md5 key on stdout.
This is used by Red Hat's BIND distribution to generate
the initial rndc.key :